The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PLATINUM has been discovered near Chm.
Mo.
MISSIONARIES have, in the last eight yss, |
formed and reduced to writing over fortyn- |
qua 3eS. |
A FRENCH decollette fashion-the back ofbe |
d!ess being open almost to the waists in GIT |
. favor, especially among the American girlst |
Homburg. |
LONDON has a great problem. 1t has 2,600,s |
people unable to get into a place of worshi |
In Central London, with 100000, there is on /
accommodations for 100000. Il
ACCORDING to parliamentary return, the Bril-
ish national debt decreased 500, SIS DURING
the last financial year, and S49o, 813, 513in the
last thirty years. The present amount is t736,
u.s. SS, or $35S2, 732, 095.
SUNFLowERs are used in Wyoming Territory
for fuel. The stalks when dry are as had as
maplewood and make hot fire, and the ieed-
heads with the seeds in, are said to burn bitter
than the best hard coal An acre of Sunfieyers
Will furnish fuel for one stove for year.
THE attendance at Chatauqua the prsent
| season has taxed the accommodations tothe
utmost capacity, aud larger quarters will ave
TO be provided for the growing crowds wch
repair to the summer city by the beautiful Ike
Chautauqua is now unquestionably wellesb-
lished institution.
A SAN ANTONIO CrEx) WOMAN publishes ,e
following card in a local paper: Il want %
public to distinctly understand that my husbai
is no negro Ny mother was creole Frenc
woman and my father a Cherokee Indian, an
my husbands mother was a Comanche Indial
and his father a German"
A 10-INcH LIZARD was found in the mail from
England at the New York post office on Tues
day. 1t was directed to a place in Indiana. The
little Saurian had crossed the ocean in tightly
closed cigar box, but became as lively as could
be when air was given him. Lizards are not
mailable, so the person to whom it is addressed
has been notified Of its detention.
WHILE grabbing on Sunday, in Staten Island
Sound, Thomas Kilbride hooked a crab which
gave him some trouble to get it into the boat.
When he hauled 1t in the head of a woman was
found attached to the crab. The young man
was Mortified at the sight and pulled rapidly for
shore The head was Identified as that of Min
ME Lowther, who was drowned in November
A DISPATCH to the New Orleans Picepune from
Meridian, Miss, says that farmers from the
drought-stricken regions of Illinois are propos-
ing to transport their hogs to Mississippi, where
corn can be found to feed them. Fortunate
~, says the Picayttne, the corn crop in mid
die Mississippi is very large and can be profita-
bly, utilized in feeding the Illinois poriers, but
it will be new thing in the commercial history
or the American hog to fatten him on Southern
corn. We await with interest the next move in
the panama of Southern development"
Four prominent members of the German
East African Society recently fell victims to
the deadly Congo fever. Two of them, the
architect Benedict Simmerer and the customs
official Schoneberg, were taken i'll only few
days after their arrival at Dar-es- Salam. The
government architect Wolff, who also died at
that station, had arrived at Zanzibar on June
10. His mission was to superintend the con-
struction of railroads in East Africa, for which
he had made plans years ago The fourth vic
tim was the agriculturist Hans Rechenberg.
A TEST of a f1re-proof paint was made at
Rockaway Beach on Tuesday. On the line of
the New York and Rockaway Beach railroad is
a trestle AZ miles in length. At the Hammel's
Station end some 200 feet had been painted with
the fire-proof paint, and to thoroughly test the
efficiency of the mixture j. E. Winslow, Super
intendent of Construction, caused the fire-box
OF an engine to be dumped on the trestle. Live
Goals covered the ties and lodged on the chords
of the bridge and settled in between the tim
bers The burning Goals grew dull and finally
cooled without burning the wood work
A VIENNA JOURNALIST, who lately visited Held
elburg, humorously describes the "dissected
physiognomies'' of the University students. He
says he was sometimes seized with a sudden
fear, on watching of these SCARED veterans
OF hundred battle-fieldS at the table d'hote
that the vigorous exertion of chewing might
cause one of the seams to unrayel and the whole
countenance to fall asunder. An old student
who presided at the table looked as if the cuts
across his face had been too much for hand
sewing, and had kept sewing machine busy
day and night. His left ear, he thought, had
defied all attempts at stitching. and was merely
fastened to the scalp with a safety pin.
Or AUDIENCES, a noted theatrical manager
says: 81 find in my travels that there is quite
difference not only in their tastes but in their
way of manifesting them. In San Francisco
the audiences resemble those in New York very
much. There is a ehilliness in the beginning
when a new play is presented, but if it pleases
the audience they give full vent to their feelings
and become heartily demOnStrative. In Boston
and Philadelphia the audiences are more like
the English. They are warmer and more de-
monstrative, and show their enjoyment more
If the play is particularly light Chicago receives
it very heartily, but the people there are not so
demonstrative as in the other cities, though they
thoroughly appreciate good thing when they
see it,"
DR.. JAMES OLIVER says in the Lancet: Bees
and ants teach us that life of ease and idleness
is that most favorable for reproduction while
life of great activity predisposes to barrenness.
That race which is physically as well as
mentally idle and which is at the same time
well fed, is likely to prove more fertile than
another race living under directly opposite con-
dtions. Katfir women, who live chiefly upon
flesh and milk, are most prolific, and give birth
almost as frequently to twins as to single child
rem. Taking all the facts into consideration
there can be no doubt that the higher educa-
ton of women is detrimental to the race. tend
sterility, or, what is worse, to produce race
with marked evidences of physical and mental
enfeeblement.''
REV. j. G. WooD says, in Longma7's Mega
zine: mo one would have thought, on placing
an oyster and five finger side by side, that the
star-fish is q relentless foe to the oyster. Those
who can remember their first fruitless en-
deavors to open an oyster may naturally won
der how the star-flsh can achieve such a feat.
AS | have repeatedly seen, it proceeds as fol
lows: Clasping the oyster in it's rays it brings
its mouth opposite the hinge From the mouth
it pours a secretion which paralyzes the hinge
muscle, and causes the shells to open. 1t can
not, like dog-whelk, extract its prey and put
ii into its stomach, so it reverseS the process,
and puts its stomach into, or rather over the
oyster protruding the stomach from it's mouth
surrounding the oyster with it's coats, digesting
it, and then withdrawing the stomach into its
body. The widest fancy of Oriental legends
never equaled in grotesque imagination this
perfectly true history of the oyster and the
star-fish."
NJ. MAXINE DU CAMP, in his book about the
Paris Mont-de-P ete, relates the story of a
pawned umbrella which was annually ire
newed" for forty successive years The
director Of The State pawnbroking establishment
at Brussels seems to have many similar ex-
periences. For more than twenty years he has
had in his keeping the diamonds and other
jewelry Of once famous prima donna who has
somehow fallen into poverty. Every year the
interest is punctually paid, but the trinlets
have not once been taken ont of pawn More
than once large sums have been lent by the